Now we just have to wait and see how much of one, and when he’ll contribute. He was scheduled to make $7.9 million in base salary this year.

Cruz hasn’t played since Week Six of 2014, when he tore his patellar tendon. He’s since been plagued by calf injuries, to the point the Giants can’t be certain what they’ll get from him.

If well, the idea of pairing him with Odell Beckham Jr. would be tantalizing, but the Giants can’t reasonably count on that at this point.

UPDATE 8:50 p.m. ET: According to Art Stapleton of the Bergen Record, Cruz will have a base salary of $1.3 million, playing time incentives to cover another possible $5.5 million and production incentives which could get him back to the original number.

Low risk high reward was the only way to justify bringing him back. Talk about his calf injuries can’t obscure the fact that no speed guy has ever made it back to what he was after a serious patella injury